Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ?

[Mike Tancsa]

On 1/22/2018 1:41 PM, Peter Moody wrote:
> fwiw, I upgraded to 11-STABLE (11.1-STABLE #6 r328223), applied the
> hw.lower_amd64_sharedpage setting to my loader.conf and got a crash
> last night following the familiar high load -> idle. this was with SMT
> re-enabled. no crashdump, so it was the hard crash that I've been
> getting.

hw.lower_amd64_sharedpage=1 is the default on AMD boxes no ? I didnt
need to set mine to 1

> 
> shrug, I'm at a loss here.

I am trying an RMA with AMD.

	---Mike


> 
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
>> On 1/22/2018 1:25 PM, Don Lewis wrote:
>>> On 22 Jan, Pete French wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 21/01/2018 19:05, Peter Moody wrote:
>>>>> hm, so i've got nearly 3 days of uptime with smt disabled.
>>>>> unfortunately this means that my otherwise '12' cores is actually only
>>>>> '6'. I'm also getting occasional segfaults compiling go programs.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't go known to have issues on BSD anyway though ? I have seen
>>>> complaints of random crashes running go under BSD systems - and
>>>> preseumably the go compiler itself is written in go, so those issues
>>>> might surface when compiling.
>>>
>>> Not that I'm aware of.  I'm not a heavy go user on FreeBSD, but I don't
>>> recall any unexpected go crashes and I haven't seen  problems building
>>> go on my older AMD machines.
>>
>> We use go quite a bit on one customer app and its quite stable. But
>> thats a FreeBSD RELENG_10 box on an intel chip.
>>
>>         ---Mike
>>
>>
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